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H. Henrik Ehrsson

H. Henrik Ehrsson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
71
Citations
23035
World Ranking
2376
National Ranking
44

Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
22906
World Ranking
2245
National Ranking
19

Overview

H. Henrik Ehrsson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has produced research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, human-computer interaction, psychiatry and mental health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research explores a variety of topics, notably:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Key recent publications include:

  • "Efference Copy Is Necessary for the Attenuation of Self-Generated Touch" (2020), published in iScience
  • "Uncertainty-based inference of a common cause for body ownership" (2022), published in eLife
  • "The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?" (2022), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Interoception as independent cardiac, thermosensory, nociceptive, and affective touch perceptual submodalities" (2022), published in Biological Psychology
  • "Which hand is mine? Discriminating body ownership perception in a two-alternative forced-choice task" (2020), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Ehrsson frequently collaborates with several researchers. Among the most frequent coauthors are Marie Chancel, Laura Crucianelli, Konstantina Kilteni, Dominika Radziun, and Sara Coppi.

The scientist's work often appears in specific publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • iScience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Biological Psychology

Best Publications

  • That's My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortex Reflects Feeling of Ownership of a Limb

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Charles Spence;Richard E. Passingham

  • The Experimental Induction of Out-of-Body Experiences

    H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping

    Valeria I. Petkova;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Touching a Rubber Hand: Feeling of Body Ownership Is Associated with Activity in Multisensory Brain Areas

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Nicholas P. Holmes;Richard E. Passingham

  • Imagery of voluntary movement of fingers, toes, and tongue activates corresponding body-part-specific motor representations

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Stefan Geyer;Eiichi Naito

  • Moving a Rubber Hand that Feels Like Your Own: A Dissociation of Ownership and Agency.

    Andreas Kalckert;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Cortical activity in precision- versus power-grip tasks: an fMRI study.

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Anders Fagergren;Tomas Jonsson;Göran Westling

  • Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body

    Mel Slater;Daniel Perez-Marcos;H. Henrik Ehrsson;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives

  • Towards a digital body: the virtual arm illusion

    Mel Slater;Daniel Perez-Marcos;H. Henrik Ehrsson;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives

  • On the other hand: dummy hands and peripersonal space.

    Tamar R. Makin;Nicholas P. Holmes;Nicholas P. Holmes;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical anxiety response

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Katja Wiech;Katja Wiech;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Listening to rhythms activates motor and premotor cortices

    Sara L. Bengtsson;Fredrik Ullén;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Toshihiro Hashimoto

  • Being Barbie: the size of one's own body determines the perceived size of the world.

    Björn van der Hoort;Arvid Guterstam;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Differential fronto-parietal activation depending on force used in a precision grip task: an fMRI study.

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Anders Fagergren;Hans Forssberg

  • Upper limb amputees can be induced to experience a rubber hand as their own.

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Birgitta Rosén;Anita Stockselius;Christina Ragnö

  • The moving rubber hand illusion revisited: comparing movements and visuotactile stimulation to induce illusory ownership.

    Andreas Kalckert;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • From part- to whole-body ownership in the multisensory brain.

    Valeria I. Petkova;Malin Björnsdotter;Giovanni Gentile;Tomas Jonsson

  • The Perspective Matters! Multisensory Integration in Ego-Centric Reference Frames Determines Full-Body Ownership

    Valeria Ivanova Petkova;Mehrnoush Khoshnevis;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • That's near my hand! Parietal and premotor coding of hand-centered space contributes to localization and self-attribution of the hand.

    Claudio Brozzoli;Giovanni Gentile;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Integration of Visual and Tactile Signals From the Hand in the Human Brain: An fMRI Study

    Giovanni Gentile;Valeria Ivanova Petkova;Henrik Ehrsson

  • I feel my hand moving: a new role of the primary motor cortex in somatic perception of limb movement.

    Eiichi Naito;Eiichi Naito;Per E. Roland;H.Henrik Ehrsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Forssberg
Hans Forssberg Karolinska Institute
Eiichi Naito
Eiichi Naito National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Richard E. Passingham
Richard E. Passingham University of Oxford
Per E. Roland
Per E. Roland University of Copenhagen
Fredrik Ullén
Fredrik Ullén Karolinska Institute
Roland S. Johansson
Roland S. Johansson Umeå University
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Tie-Qiang Li
Tie-Qiang Li Karolinska University Hospital

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